It is only after presenting the conceptual outline of the situation that Hegel descends to the standpoint of natural consciousness and its rather simple experience “which we are now to consider” (§173). The self-consciousness’ striving to be itself, to make its two moments equal, takes the form of a self-conscious being driven to erase the independence of its object. It now appears as “desire” (§174), this time understood in its usual meaning that, perhaps, may be rendered as appetite. “Certain of the nullity of this other, it posits for itself this nullity as its truth, it destroys the self sufficient object, and it gives itself the certainty of itself as true certainty, as such which for it has become to be in an objective manner” (§174).